Doug Aitken Quotes
'Station to Station' is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happening? A happening is a moment in time. A moment in time that is not choreographed, where you don't know precisely what's going on. Where there are aspects of different layers of culture.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Movie-making is an extreme sport on many levels. It requires stamina such as I had never imagined.
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I'm involved in a different kind of campaign myself - to make sure that the climate crisis is the number one issue on the agenda of candidates in both parties. And I know that sounds like an unrealistic goal right now, but I will wager that by the time the elections of November 2008 come around, it will be the number one issue in both parties.
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Don't ever in your life do a World Cup and the Olympic Games at the same time. This will make your life almost impossible.
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The Rio experience for me is going to be completely different to London.
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'Station to Station' is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happening? A happening is a moment in time. A moment in time that is not choreographed, where you don't know precisely what's going on. Where there are aspects of different layers of culture.
